Kovačeva priča o izopštavanjima (Životopis Malvine Trfifković)
Kovač’s story about excommunications (Biography of Malvina Trikovic)

Author(s): Vesna Vukićević Janković
Subject(s): Croatian Literature, Serbian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Fakultet humanističkih nauka, Univerzitet »Džemal Bijedić« u Mostaru
Keywords: Mirko Kovač; Biography of Marina Trifkovic; antiheroes; repression;
Summary/Abstract: Since it was first published, Malvina has attracted attention of a wide professional and non-professional readership, primarily as a narrative about Serbian-Croatian hatred and as the first lesbian novel in the South Slavic world. It was not only the choice of narrative forms but also that of the topic that marks Kovač’s text as open to those forms of social life placed on the margins of society and exposed to repression. Kovač builds up ironic outlines of the codes of socio-cultural milieus and of all the forms of social power, providing a parodic image of social morality based on subversive mechanisms and partial truths. The social, political, ideological, religious, ethic, and aesthetic models of the world through which one perceives reality are established in the absence of emancipated action and choice. Prohibitions and limitations, stereotypes, and taboos, and, on the opposite side, transgression (breaking of boundaries) of all the proscriptions, are the object of redescription in this work.

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